Old Is Gold
-
Mao's China and the Cold WarThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage,...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker ProgramsContracting Freedom is the first relational study of the origins of twentieth-century U.S. guestworker programs from Mexico and the Caribbean, focusing on their shared origins. It investigates these government-sponsored programs as the unexplored consequence of the history of enslaved labor, Japanese American incarceration, the...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious ConservatismThis is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New YorkOn a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their state's constitutional convention, demanding "equal, and civil...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies and Progressive Foreign PolicyIn Democracy's Think Tank, Brian S. Mueller places the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) at the center of a network of activists involved in making the world safe for diversity. Unlike defense intellectuals at the RAND Corporation and other think tanks responsible for formulating...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Capitalism Contested: The New Deal and Its LegaciesIn the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages--the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in TuskegeeIn this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.Home to Booker...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible BeltRevealing a surprising paradox at the heart of America's "Bible Belt," Christine Leigh Heyrman examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes. Although the American...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay CommunityBetween 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance....
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era: How to Win America's Wars in the Twenty-First CenturyDuring the post--World War II era, American foreign policy prominently featured direct U.S. military intervention in the Third World. Yet the cold war placed restraints on where and how Washington could intervene until the collapse of the former Soviet Union removed many of the...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and CultureAsylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World InequalityAmid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader, organizations of lawyers and experts worked inside the system. They confronted corporate power and helped win major consumer and environmental protections. By...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The World Colonization Made: The Racial Geography of Early American EmpireAccording to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century United States....
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Original Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition V I: Parts 1 & 2,Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804-1806; Parts 1 & 2 Volume 1This set was first published in 1904 from the manuscripts of the American Philosophical Society together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark and from other sources including notebooks, letters...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American PoliticsOn August 7, 1989, Congressman Mickey Leland departed on a flight from Addis Ababa, with his thirteen-member delegation of Ethiopian and American relief workers and policy analysts, bound for Ethiopia's border with Sudan. This was Leland's seventh official humanitarian mission in his nearly decade-long...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War IIThey helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic decisions for people they had just defeated in...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of OrderMichael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making of the American mind. Here...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum NorthFrederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A History of Small Business in AmericaFrom the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big TopA century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book,...
- ¥15,504 JPY
- ¥15,504 JPY
- Unit price
- per